Gary Gaines Dies: Texas High School Football Coach Of ‘Friday Night Lights' Fame Was 73
Gary Gaines (2009) AP Photo/Kevin Buehler Gary Gaines, the Texas high school football coach featured in Buzz Bissinger's 1990 nonfiction book Frida...
Gary Gaines (2009) AP Photo/Kevin Buehler Gary Gaines, the Texas high school football coach featured in Buzz Bissinger's 1990 nonfiction book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream and portrayed in the 2004 film version by Billy Bob Thornton, died Monday in Lubbock, Texas, of Alzheimer's disease. He was 73. His death was announced by his family to the Associated Press. Thornton, ‘Friday Night Lights' (2004) Everett Collection Bissinger spent the 1988 football season with the Odessa Permian High School team to chronicle the phenomenon of Texas football culture.